sara sidner was there when it all happened. >> let's go. come on, sara. come on, sara. >> having to run out of the compound now. we see gunfire coming from outside o the compound. it's getting too close. so we're leaving. we're not going to go into the compound. there's definitely from the outside of the compound firing towards us. [ gunfire ] >> just got a gunfire incoming over our head. >> it's behind you. >> we're seeing the tracers and hitting the water tank and the area. we got to go. >> sara sidner outside gadhafi's compound this evening. contrast that with scenes from earlier today as fighters poured in firing shots in celebration climbing the statues, carrying out boxes of guns and ammunition. some went room to room searching for gadhafi. of course, they found to trace of him. they managed to shut off a key escape route possibly paving the way for the leaders to fly in from benghazi. military spokesman saying that could take place on thursday. that is assuming that continued progress, they have continued progress. opposition forces have driven the

you've been listens to sara as well. it looks like a very tense and dangerous situation at this time, as someone who has a very intense understanding of the military, in your experience, what is taking place? >> suzanne, what you are seeing is first of all, sara is being extremely courageous, and your cautions to her are great. my recommendation is she needs to settle someplace where she can communicate with you guys and give her a good sense, let this thing unplay in front of her, and your cautions are absolutely spot on. so god bless her. i hope she's going to be okay. it's complete kayous, what you see. the forces are probably in blue jeans just like the rebels are in blue jeans. males and females. this fight is 360 degrees all dimensions. it's extremely chaotic. sara's comment is absolutely against spot on. if you can see a sniper, he or she can see you, but you don't know you're not looking at one as you come around the corner. your sense of protection is about as far as you can reach your hand in front of you. peop

we have tape of sara doing a report. want to listen to her report. >> reporter: ten minutes later after we talked to those in the square who were happy to be in their homes who left, they had come back to fight. >> all right. we're going to cue up the tape, general, sorry. let's continue this conversation. we'll get sara on the phone. i want you to talk to her. you were telling our viewers in the united states and around the world that there are nato troops on the ground with the rebels helping them. is that right? >> no, i don't think that's technically accurate. what i'm told is there are advisers in there from national forces, but these are not necessarily under nato command. it may be under the british government's control. it's clear they have done work in helping the libyan rebels organize and plan their maneuver. >> i want to inter rurupt, gene. these special forces under the command of nato or other nato allies, they haven't just been training the rebels. they have helped them go in with precise logistics and int

sara sidner as well as we mentioned. at the top of the program, matthew chance is in a very tough spot tonight. he, his crew, and a number of other foreign correspondents are trapped inside the ruxus hotel, not far from the gadhafi compound or where sara sidner just spoke to us, martyr's square, formerly green squamplt i spoke to matthew in the 8:00 hour. >> what's the situation where you are inside that hotel? >> reporter: well, in terms of we've not got much to report in terms of what's happening outside the perimeter of the hotel in the rest of tripoli. i know you're speaking to sair ra. i've not got any verification of what's going on from our very limited perspective here. we're still very much in the same kind of grim situation, which is where we're in a hotel where the top floor of the hotel, we've corralled ourselves into that top floor while gadhafi loyalists are still very much in control of this hotel and the immediate perimeter around it. beyond that, i can't give you any good indication of what extent gadhaf

sara, you are with us still, yes? there we go. can you hear me okay, sara?: yes, i can tell hear you. >> i know it's hard amid all the celebratory gunfire. we've been talking about every 45 minutes, checking in with you. what's it like at the square now, are you seeing more people leaving tripoli, more people coming on to the streets, give us a feel? >> reporter: we're seeing more people come to the square, we're hearing more blasts and gunfire at the square. we are seeing a few more residents. what we saw was a lovely scene of a resident getting out of his truck and giving water, cold water to people here. it is still ramadan, which means people are fasting until the sun sets, and then they begin to have their very first meal of the day, they are bringing that around. they've come to us to offer what they have. the stores are generally closed, but now we're seeing that maybe one or two stores has opened up, people, obviously, those stores supporting the rebels and trying to be here for the residents who have come out on to the streets. but again, the gunfir

sara, stay connected with us, please. if in full live pictures, smoke that is billows above moammar gadhafi's compound. we still cannot tell you if indeed he's hunkered down in the dom pound or not. there are reports he's fled for his hometown. our fred pleitgen actually had a chance to meet with rebel leaders. when you talked with them, what did they tell you directly about moammar gadhafi's son saif? we were reporting yesterday he was captured. next thing you saw overnight, he was walking freely by the rixos hotel saying he had duped the rebels, and that indeed his father is still in charge. fred, are you able to hear me? >> reporter: yes. >> fred, it's kyra, are we connected? >> um-hmm. >> okay. fred, it's kyra, can you acknowledge that you hear me? it's kyra. okay. we're going to still try to connect with fred there in benghazi. sara sidner, are you still with me at the checkpoints in tripoli? >> reporter: i am. yes, i am, kyra, i can hear you loud and clear. >> all right. so sara, what is your -- we were reporting th

sara, come on, sara. >> reporter: we're having to run out of the compound now.e see gunfire coming from outside the compound in. and it's getting -- it's getting too close. so we're leaving. we're not going to go all the way into the compound. it's definitely now from the outside of the compound firing towards us. >> let's go. let's go. >> go ahead. we just got a gunfire incoming overhead. just saw gunfire. we're seeing all these tracers hitting the water tank, hitting the area. so we've got to go. >> such courage displayed by sara and all our cnn teams on the ground in libya today. a little bit earlier i was able to speak with sara about following the rebels into the compound and the dangerous situation that sent her team running out. >> reporter: we had to flee the compound along with everyone that was standing there because we literally heard bullets flying past our heads. we looked back behind us and saw tracer rounds coming from a fairly large weapon that were coming directly into the compound. so we got out of there as fast as we could. everyone was runnin

sara sidner, thank you so much. gadhafi forces right now are keeping our reporters on lockdown inside of that international hotel. the hotel in tripoli. our matthew chance is there. we're expecting him to call in at any moment during this hour. we'll bring that to you live, of course. one of the final gadhafi strongholds in all of the capital city. coming up, i want to talk about the rebels. what started as a group has become an army. close to taking down moammar gadhafi. but rebels in libya are definitely getting help. we'll explain to you these reports of sleeper cells and which moves broke this battle wide open. plus, we're just getting in this brand new video as i mentioned of president obama, he's on vacation in martha's vineyard. he spoke a short time ago on what's happening. these developments in libya. the president uninterrupted in his own words, next. it's good for the entire community. at bank of america, we know the impact that local businesses have on communities, so we're helping them with advice from

joe knows sara. joe, is this a surprise? obviously, lots of speculation about steve jobs' future because of his health? what's your view? >> the only real surprise is that it happened tonight, really. he's been sick for a long time. he has not looked well, obviously, in appearances recently he's had a liver transplant, a tumor on his pancreas. he's had various other ailments. so his health, one assumes has been deteriorating, and there is a certain kind of sad inevitability to this moment. >> obviously apple's become this extraordinary global business. one of the biggest market caps of any american company in history. what impact will steve jobs standing down as the chief executive officer have on the company, do you think, if any? >> well, steve jobs is one of the great innovators in the history of modern capitalism. he's also one of the genius marketers. with ways of getting people to get interested in and buying products, that nobody -- we haven't seen in a long time. apple is going to miss that, without question. and the

sara sidner outside of gadhafi's compound this evening. and fighters poured in, carrying out boxes of guns and ammo, some went room to room searching for gadhafi but found no trace of him. they did manage to shut off a key escape route, taking the airport, possibly paving the way for transitional leaders to fly in from benghazi. such a move could take place on thursday, a lot depends on the fighting. the thursday date assumes continued progress bringing tripoli under opposition control. opposition forces say they have driven the majority of government forces back to gadhafi's hometown of sirt. that remains to be seen. many of the statements made by opposition forces over the last several days have turned out not to be true. witnesses around this time sai gadhafi appeared. we're trying to establish communication with matthew chance. and he his crew and other reporters, trapped inside a hotel. being kept there by gadhafi loyalists, still in control of the area. the situation growing more tense by the minute. all of that ahead. a quick wrapup

sara sidner live from tripoli.nd sara, give us a sense of what is taking place on the ground where you are. >> reporter: it's been a combination of calm and unsettling. people start celebrating again, and off goes the gunfire, and they're using heavy arms fire. you can hear some of it going off now. the cars are going around and around what is now being called martyr square by these -- by the opposition. and what we're seeing is fewer and fewer residents. i did see somebody break down in tears. there was a mother walking along the street and all the gunfire began to just overwhelm her. she says she was afraid and one of her brothers came and picked her up and took her home. she started crying because it was too much for her. the whole ground shakes when some of these -- like that -- i'm not even sure what that is. all right. i want to give you this picture. can we -- let's turn the camera. we are seeing them break down buildings now. we are seeing them break down buildings here in martyr square. if you'll look stra

we have re-established our connection with with sara seidner. she was approaching what's called green square right in the heart of tripoli. sara, set the scene for us where you are right now. >> okay. we are at green square. what you're hearing is celebratory gunfire. what we're seeing in the streets is rebels basically. there are not thousands of people. there are more like -- just doing a quick count here, maybe 100, 150. but they're not all together in one area. they are spread out all over -- around the square. but what we're being told by the rebels coming over is that there are snipers err errs on some o buildings. there are small fires that people have set purposely but they are not in any way going to subvert roles. they are in the middle of the square. there are a few people kind of milling about in the outskirts. >> sara, i'm going to interrupt because we're losing that connection. we're going to try to re-establish it so we can better appreciate it. sara seidner, our correspondent, is moving in with rebel forces. they are now at green

this still could be a terribly, terribly bloody fight, sara? >> reporter: i think that is a very definitely. because no one quite knows what exactly what kind of fire power gadhafi and his regime have in that city. everyone's speculating that he has quite a bit. he said that he has plenty of fire power. that he will use by any means necessary to keep his position, but we do not know for sure what these rebels will be facing and, of course, what civilians will be facing. and one of the things we're hearing from these rebels is has they'll have to be very cautious. they have to deal with civilians in the area trying to keep them from getting caught in the crosshairs but also their whole mission protect civilians. it isn't as it they can tell everyone, move out of the area, we are going to take action. this is a heavily populated capital with civilians, families, people living there. now a lot of those families cannot get out of the city, because the roads are blocked. there is a lot of confusion and gunfire going on, and so this could end up bein

sara sidner doing heroic work in libya.n our national security reporter fran townsend who serves on the external and homeland security advisory board and has had extensive experience dealing with the gadhafi region. this is amazing what's going on right now. is there an insurgency potentially that's in the works? >> i think there is, wolf. you know, one of the interesting things is as the forces around gadhafi have slowly begun to disintegrate and allowed the rebels into tripoli, what you worry about these forces will take off their uniforms and live to fight another day, much like what we saw in iraq, so the potential for that is quite dangerous for the transitional national council, and one of the things that the u.s. and western european allies will have to help them as they begin to try and form a government. >> because it's amazing to me that one of the sons of moammar gadhafi, mohammed gadhafi is taken prisoner and then he escapes. here in "the situation room," let me play a little clip. >> sure. >> muhammad was captu

sara sidner in green square.th the latest on the airport and matthew chance trapped in tripoli in his hotel. all ahead on "360." tracers hitting the water tank >>> that very rare thing in the republican thing, a moderate. jon huntsman believes in global warming, is a moderate. and was once in a rock band. i'm joined by his extremely glamorous wife of 29 years, mary kay. when did you first meet him. >> careful. >> i met him in high school. i grew up in florida, he grew up in california. i was a sally girl in a restaurant, he was a dish washer, and i fell in love with a rock and roll guy. what can i say. >> did you think you were marrying the next freddy mercury. >> oh, yeah. >> he still has that in him today. he is probably the most colorful guy i know. rock and roll, motocross, harley, he -- >> harley? you ride a harley? you ride harley-davidsons, wanted to be awe ro rock star. why should he be president? >> he's been there, done that, and taken a state to number one right there. i think that the confidence is th

sara, great to see you again. on the show last night, pretty frantic scenes.xpressed a concern at one stage about what your family might be thinking. have you had a chance to talk to your mother yet? >> yes, i did. thanks for asking, piers. i did give her a call, because we're having difficult times trying to communicate, even with cnn, it's been very, very hard. our phones drop constantly, even though they're satellite phones. every time nato flies over, we lose all communication. but i did get ahold of mom, and first she said great job. then she said, what the heck are you doing. not exactly like that. but close. you know how family is. they see you in these situations and they're wondering, why would you go there? what are you doing? why are you in the middle of that? can't you find somewhere safer to be? but you know this, as a journalist yourself, you know it's important for us to be able to see and hear and tell the story from the perspective, and be there in the middle of it, so we know what's going on. and it's not something you're getting in a tweet o

. >> now, when libyan rebels stormed moammar gadhafi's compound on tuesday, cnn's sara sidner and her team the were there to cover it. they followed the rebels right into the complex. within minutes there was more gunfire and they had to retreat. i spoke with sara. >> reporter: we had to complete the compound because we literally heard bullets flying past our heads. we looked behind us and saw tracer rounds coming from a fairly large weapon that were coming directly into the compound. so we got out of there as fast as we could. everyone was running. rebels themselves holding all that ammunition in their guns, their first reaction was to gun and then to turn around and start firing back. what we do understand at this point is that was not coming from within the compound. that was actually coming from a neighborhood to the east that was outside of the compound. so what the rebels are saying is it is gadhafi's forces and they are now attacking the compound which is something no one ever would have thought would happen. this is a compound that is really gadhafi's personal space. the rebel

the answer was, we're trying to control the situation, but we can't control everything, john. >> saraidner, amid what we hope is just the celebration in libya tonight, sara, thank you. >>> let's get some important context from experts nick burns is the former undersecretary of state and cnn national contributor fran townsend is also with us, she's a member of the external advisory board of the cia and the department of homeland security. i want to go to the map first, let's go to libya, sara sidner making the point i want to show you if you see the stripe, it's held by the rebels and tripoli the capital, they are beginning to put a circle around. but the question is the government towns here and the regime towns. fran from you first, from the folks in the intelligence community do they have confidence that the guys finally have their act together and they really might have a chance to choke off and maybe even march on tripoli? >> well, john, this is the most strategic success they've seen coming out of the rebels. and the question is can they put the internal sort of machinations asid

sara sidner as well, general clark thank you. fran townsend. let us know what you think. we're on facebook. i'm on twitter @ anderson cooper >>> next a deadly day in the streets of syria. it has been yet another deadly day. government protestors targeting -- government forces targeting protestors >>> later three young men convicted of murdering a second grader. the crime drew natural attention, so did developments today. the west memphis three they've been known as. all three are out of prison today. one was on death row. were they wrongly convicted or wrongly freed? crime and punishment the west memphis three tonight. first isha sesay. >> reporter: you have to see it to believe it, and even then a baby in a sfroeler in the back of a pickup. and wait until you hear what the babysitter said about it. that and much more when 360 >>> syria today, 23 killings >>> syria today, 23 killings today alone. in a moment you'll hear from a top syrian diplomat who says that security forces are there to protect protestors, not mo them down with gunfire. he says we have it all wrong thar

there are guns all around. >> sara sidner, thank you. we'll have much more from our teams on the ground in libya as soon as it's safe for them to pause and give us a call here at cnn. >>> still ahead, let's take a look at the pictures of live radar here. it's large, it's powerful and aiming for the u.s. we're tracking hurricane irene. now a category 3 storm as churns through the atlantic and the bahamas. folks battening down hatches as they brace for a direct hit in a matter of hours. but then ha? where in the u.s. will, could irene strike people in north carolina? not taking any chances. >> there are few evacuation options. the island is 40 kilometers long. outrunning the storm isn't an option. >> some of the predictions here have the tar heel state as irene's bull's-eye. we'll check in with meteorologist chad myers next. [ male announcer ] they'll see you...before you see them. cops are cracking down on drinking and riding. drive sober, or get pulled over. [ mrs. davis ] i want to find a way to break through. to make science as excitin

sara, where are you now and what's going on? >> reporter: we are in green square, that the rebels are now calling martyr square. they are here, driving around the square. it is 3:05 in the morning. they are screaming god is great. they are screaming die, die, mr. moammar gadhafi. they are screaming libya is free. what we saw about a half an hour ago, a crowd of about 200 people, blowing off every single -- anything that would basically fire. they were shooting into the air here. this square looked very differently 48 hours ago when the rebels first made it into the city. they were really in fight mode. they were looking around for snipers, now a very different scene. people just celebrating. not fighting, not thinking about fighting. literally just celebrating here in the middle of town. wolf. >> do they have any instinct or any hints at all where gadhafi may be hiding out? do they think he's still in tripoli, someplace else in libya? do they believe he may have escaped the country? >> reporter: it depends on who you ask, wolf.

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sara sidner as well, general clark thank you. fran townsend. let us know what you think. we're on facebook. i'm on twitter @ anderson cooper >>> next a deadly day in the streets of syria. it has been yet another deadly day. government protestors targeting -- government forces targeting protestors >>> later three young men convicted of murdering a second grader. the crime drew natural attention, so did developments today. the west memphis three they've been known as. all three are out of prison today. one was on death row. were they wrongly convicted or wrongly freed? crime and punishment the west memphis three tonight. first isha sesay. >> reporter: you have to see it to believe it, and even then a baby in a sfroeler in the back of a pickup. and wait until you hear what the babysitter said about it. that and much more when 360 continues. [ waves crashing ] [ martin luther king jr. ] i still have a dream that one day on the red hills of georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. i ha

let's go straight to sara sidner. sara, if you can hear me, what is the latest there right now? >> reporter: we were hearing loud booms, loud blasts, a lot of rapid gunfire. we saw tracer rounds coming over our heads very, very close to us, literally right over us. we had to take cover. so we started to wonder what exactly was going on, if there was some sort of fight that started up again in this town, which is just about 30 miles from tripoli. as it turned out as the night went on, even though that went on about an hour and a half, we finally got in touch with rebel sources who told us, no, actually they are celebrating. yes, they're blowing off things like mortars but they are celebrating still. what we do know, there were gun battles in the city of tripoli today. we drove into the main drag from the west. that is where a lot of businesses normally are, a lot of commerce takes place and some neighborhoods. we drove straight down towards green square and we were stopped in the evening because they were telling us that we couldn't go any further. we could hear gunfire. the rebe

cnn's sara sidner is there this evening. sara, what are you seeing and experiencing there in zawiyah? >> reporter: it's interesting to note here. because we've spent quite a bit of time in misratah when there were battles going on near that city. we are hearing the same chant now, and you can hear it behind me, from the mosques, the mosques all over this city, just 30 miles west of tripoli. it's a call that was going out when the battle was most fierce. a call for victory saying god is great. that went on and on and on in misratah until the battle was pushed far out of that city. it gives you some idea of what is happening now. we are hearing lots of small arms fire and also some -- what sounds like artillery fire. you hear that there. some more fire coming from the western part of the city. but they are now pushing east, and that's where they've been going because that is towards tripoli. they were able to push the gadhafi forces farther and farther back. they say that they've been able to push them actually almost all the

let's bring in sara sidner right now. all of us were watching your reports today as you went in with the rebels, went in with the opposition to the presidential compound in tripoli. we were scared, i must say, i was frightened, i was worried about you, worried about our producers, our camera crews. >> reporter: yes. >> give us a flavor of what it was like when you went with them and they went in to see where gadhafi was, they thought he was ho holed up in there. >> reporter: yes, i think one of the extraordinary things was that you can hear in the neighborhoods people celebrating but you weren't quite sure because we were still hearing blasts and booms from bab al ziziyah, the ga zdhafi compound. we decided we're going to see it for ourselves. all of us agreed we'd go in together as a team, check out the team and if it was safe we'd go further in and ended up going right through the eastern gate, walking right in with rebels first stopping us saying hold on, who are you? we said cnn. they said come on in, we've been watch

sara sidner is in zawiya right now. and sara, what is happening where you are on the ground right now? >> reporter: right now we are hearing many loud blasts, but they are much further outside the city than when we were here yesterday. we've been able to go all the way into the city center and we're seeing extensive damage to all of the buildings, and it's basically the commercial district zawiya. and rebels were told in the last couple of days to move out of the center of the town, to evacuate the residents, and there was definitely some nato action here overnight according to the rebels that we've been speaking to inside of zawiya, but they do now say they have control of the city, but there is still fighting just outside the city, where they're close enough to send in, for example, shells and mortars into the city. >> cnn's sara sidner. i know you've come under gunfire there, so please stay safe as you continue your reporting. live for us from libya. thank you very much. and with rebel forces closing in, the big ques

i'll go live to sara sidner. sara, if you can hear me -- what's going on? >> we heard a lot of rapid gunfire. we saw tracer rounds coming over our heads, literally right over us. we had to take cover. we started to wonder what was going on. if there was some sort of fight that started up again in this town which is just about 30 miles from tripoli. as it turned out, as the night went on even though that went on for about an hour and a half, we got in touch with rebel sources who told us, no, they are celebrating. yes, they're blowing off things like mortars but they are celebrating in zawiya. there were gun battles in the city of tripoli. we drove into the main drag from the west, that's where a lot of businesses normally are. a lot of commerce takes place and some neighborhoods. we drove straight down toward green square and we were stopped in the evening because they were telling us we couldn't go any further. we could hear gunfire the rebels telling us snipers were in the area and the situation was very tense and there were, at one point, surrounded but

we'll talk with sara sidner with the opposition pors forces.gadhafi's hands as is the area in red. the rebels, the opposition forces now control regions to the east, the south and west of contributely, the area in green. nato says they're making advances in the city of zlitan and the rebels say they control parts of the key city of zawiya. the fighting there has been bloody. zawiya is a strategic supply route to libya. a commander said gadhafi's reports are staging fierce resistance. a government spokesman dismissed talk of rebel control of zowiya and said the supply route is secure. sara snidener, you talked to people coming out of zowiya today. what's the latest from there? >> certainly the families are quite scared because they were mentioning there was heavy shelling early in the morning that. had continued throughout the day. they were scared for their families and the safety of their children. we did see car loads literally of families leaving zowiya because they were afraid number one for being hit but also afraid of the reaction gadhafi

the first day was to meet with sara to meet about books. we discovered that we both had an older brother thing that she had a brother who was as mysterious to her as mine was to me. it was so perfect, cynthia, we had launched on our brothers. we stayed there for the next 3 hours, and closed the cafe. sara said this brother sister thing is huge and no one writes about it, no one talks about it, the affect our brothers and sisters has on us. this is your next book, this is what you need to write. are you kidding me, i could never write anything so personal, never. that is how it started. when you >> when you were working on this, friends, you would talk about my relationship with my difficult older brother, what happened? what doors opened up, what did you learn about what people carry around about their siblings? >> it is huge. so many share this. it is like the asian flu. the first year of trying to work on this, i couldn't do it, so i approached it like a reporter. i was dancing around what it was really about, which is the red hot emotion

we'll talk with sara sidner with the opposition pors forces.poli still in gadhafi's hands as is the area in red. the rebels, the opposition forces now control regions to the east, the south and west of contributely, the area in green. nato says they're making advances in the city of zlitan and the rebels say they control parts of the key city of zawiya. the fighting there has been bloody. zawiya is a strategic supply route to libya. a commander said gadhafi's reports are staging fierce resistance. a government spokesman dismissed talk of rebel control of zowiya and said the supply route is secure. sara snidener, you talked to people coming out of zowiya today. what's the latest from there? >> certainly the families are quite scared because they were mentioning there was heavy shelling early in the morning that. had continued throughout the day. they were scared for their families and the safety of their children. we did see car loads literally of families leaving zowiya because they were afraid number one for being hit but also afraid of the re

i think it will take quite a bit of time. >> sara sidner. sara, while you were talking, we were seeing video, some of your amazing work today. thank you, as always, from your colleagues. be careful. and thanks for your reporting. >>> we'll have more on libya later this hour, we'll speak to a former cia director about how the nation's upheaval affects security here in the u.s. >>> but up next a powerful 5.8 earthquake hits the east coast. we'll have the latest on the massive evacuations and the gridlo gridlock. who cuddle up with your soreness and give out polar bear hugs. technology. [ male announcer ] new bengay cold therapy. the same technology used by physical therapists. go to bengay.com for a 5-dollar coupon. i don't always have time to eat like i should. that's why i like glucerna shakes. they have slowly digestible carbs to help minimize blood sugar spikes, which can help lower a1c. [ male announcer ] glucerna. helping people with diabetes find balance. [ male announcer ] they'll see you...before you see them. cops are cracking down o

sara sidner making the point, if you see the stripe this is held by the rebels. the capital right here. you see they're beginning to put a bit of a circle around. the question is a couple of government towns here, regime towns here. fran, to you first from folks you talk to in the intelligence community, do they have any confidence that these guys finally have their act together and they really might have a chance to choke off and then maybe even march on tripoli? >> well, john, this is the most strategic success they've seen coming out of the rebels. the question is can they put the internal sort of machinations aside? we've seen indications there's tension among the ranks of the rebels. if they can put that aside and choke off supplies it give them an opportunity. along with nato support, there's a chance that they can actually achieve their objectives of choking off the gadhafi regime but it remains to be seen. this is going to requires a sustained and persistent effort. >> nick burns, the strategy for nato, they've been dropping a lot of air strikes in tripol

sara pailin. an alaska jury indicted the man identified as john christie and his 22 year-old son craig. they call the attorney for sara pailin more than 40 times and leaving profanity placed messages. they included threats of assault, and death threats and kidnapping. >> the standoff between eight gunmen in police is finally over. here is video outside of the extended stay hotel where the swat team stormed in. aqua hot as to the standoff lasted for nearly 30 hours. the suspect has been identified as 38 year-old peter james thomas. he was found dead inside of the hotel room. police are not saying how he died but that was not from any law enforcement action. he had also barricaded his girlfriend in side of the room. police are saying the negotiations ended on wednesday when the swat team finally made their move. >> the maid entry into the suspect's room using a camera to survey the inside of the room. it was determined that he appeared to be down and deceased. >> peter james thomas was wanted for a

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and you just heard in sara sidner's report how chaotic things are on the ground there. hopefully some kind of a smoother transition from the gadhafi areregime to a post-gadi period. >> ivan watson from turkey wrapping up the events in that conference between the turkish foreign minister and also thent. >> a lot going on. we'll keep you fully abreast of all developments from wall street and jackson heole and le i can't. that's it for us. thanks for joining us. >> you're watching cnn, the world's news leader. coffee doesn't have vitamins... unless you want it to. new splenda® essentials™ no calorie sweetener with b vitamins, the first and only one to help support a healthy metabolism. three smart new ways to sweeten. same great taste. new splenda® essentials™. >>> events continue to unfold in libya's capital. we take a special look at the future path for the north african country. just nine months ago, the so-called arab spring dawned in tunisia and changed the face of the arab world. egypt followed. and more dramatic events in will i be libya. now the national transition

with us sara margon, a former top staffer on the senate foreign relations committee. thanks for joining me. >> hi. >> saif al islam, we thought he was in rebel custody and he pops up on television. what does that tell us? should we be concerned what we're hearing out of the rebels? >> i think what it points to more than anything else is there's a certain amount of chaos in tripoli. as we've known all along, this is not a professional fighting force. it's well organized. saif al islam could have been in custody and escaped is not entirely surprising. it should give us a note of caution that the fighting is not necessarily over. it doesn't mean gadhafi is going to come back. it doesn't mean what he says is true, but it suggests there are pockets of resistance not only in tripoli but outside of tripoli and this isn't over yet. >> we have a tendency to declare victory, it's over for us, but the reality on the ground is different. sara, what are the markers we should be looking for, nonmiddle east experts, the average person, what are the markers we should be looking for o

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thank you very much for that update sara while the numbers keep changing so let's take a look at the latest figures for the arts yes and the my sex trade this still thin and this is adding to the volatility the arts yes that is close to three percent of all the my sex is almost zero and a half percent in the black let's take a look at the individual share moves on the my sex energy majors are among the main daters this hour is the been among the hardest hits in recent sessions normal cyclical is also in the black the minor subsidiary has bought back two percent of the company's affairs for one point two billion dollars and as sarah just said car maker after vases also gave in the company has posted a seventy million dollars net profit for the first half of the year. when european markets have just opened and they're strongly in the black both the footsie and the facts are all over it superset the south. asian stocks though are down after post the new some profit on wednesday exploiters are among the main losers in japan as the yen strengthened against the us dollar with a panasonic d

sara sidner was there moving in with the rebels.pound, a tremendous day for these rebels. watch this. >> reporter: we are walking into gadhafi's compound. the rebels have taken the compound. we're going in to see what we can see. we can see some the blasts. all of these men armed to the teeth. they're yelling "god is great." this is baba al jazia. they now have people standing at security. okay, they're telling us okay, okay. we can go inside. to the compound. [ horns honking [ [ speaking in foreign language ] [ gunfire ] >> reporter: celebratory gunfire going off. you can tell they feel very, very excited, very excited. we're going to go now a little bit further. if you look over here to the right, you are seeing the fire inside gadhafi's compound. >> allah akbah. >> reporter: we are told the whole place has been secured by rebels and there are cars driving in, not easily but there is still quite a bit of gunfire, that gunfire sell bratory gunfire. we see another fire inside of the compound but this is, this is a historic day. psyc

over four percent well to find out what's going on let's go to sara first at the headquarters of the. russian markets what's going on. a putting. him ok also getting. some correction going on in the markets but that's italy it looks like we're in for another day of market needs to a big trading incredibly turbulent a glossy day and today's results following on from edges of first day trading on wall street of the dow closing five hundred nineteen points doubt that the low since two thousand and ten got a raised any of the gains that were made on cheese day with bills to give back they think credibly gesture a despite some of you now says that we've heard recently the u.s. federal reserve saying that it was going to keep interest rates low until about twenty thirty of european central banks that to. italy and spain. have had temporary confidence based but it still seems there is a lot of uncertainty around we've heard from a lot of people much of both driving this sentiment driven that there's a lot of bear amongst investors and we still dumping never got that in favor of finding safer

stock exchange hello to sara so the r.t.s. has already open water all the prospects for the trading day. well we've seen. a pitting and currently trading flight lee in the black billet so we can't be it as he said for another bullet a day of trading not fully a disastrous day old wall street yesterday the dow closing five hundred and nineteen points down that's the lowest place in trading since two thousand and ten and that's a race all of the gains that were made on cheese day we're still seeing a lot of under confidence in investors in the market and they still got the jitters at despite some of the decisions that have been made recently through the u.s. federal reserve saying it's going to keep interest rates low until twenty thirty we've had political leaders speaking out the european central bank approaching up its sleeve in spain and buying up the bones that it's not doing more than providing a temporary call that the maybe there's still a lot of uncertainty about exactly what's going to be happening going forward today

that firefight that sara is seeing is a key battle.between gadhafi loyalists and rebels backed by nato war planes over libya. that will be a decisive battle. it is already having an effect of cutting the main supply route into tripoli and along with the other rebel advances in the south and east of the capital. it has had an effect of circling tripoli and cutting it off from any flow of supplies. that is having a real impact psychologically on the residents of the town that is putting pressure on the regime. who knows what will happen in the days and weeks ahead. >> matthew, i know you are limited in where you can go. severely limited and you are watched by government minders. you are confined in large part at that hotel. you can describe for us what you hear and see out the window. you witnessed a lot of nato air strikes. have they picked up recently? >> reporter: they have. i think over the course of the past four or five days or three or four days, nato has really been stepping up its attacks on various targets inside tripoli. every

that coming to us from sara sidner, who just called in.t they may attempt a last-ditch attack against the rebels there. reps there should be sitting down about now, in the ethiopian capital. we'll follow all those angles for you. plus, barbara starr at the pentagon on what the u.s. military role could look like. barbara, i'm sure you've seen the interviews with general marks and various other military leaders we've been talking to, everybody speculating about what could happen. what are you getting from the pentagon? >> well, kyra, pentagon officials say don't count on any involvement by u.s. forces, president obama, defense secretary leon panetta have long said this will not involve u.s. forces on the ground. this is a nato coalition-led operation. that's how they want to keep it and they want to work with whatever new government emerges in libya. let me go back to what you were saying a minute ago. last-ditch attack. that is a major concern by nato. i just got off the phone with senior nato officials. they say that is something they're w

so it bodes well. >> let's go to sara sidner. she joins us from the square in tripoli.ou are on the ground? >> reporter: we are in green square now, renamed by the rebels martar square, where there are still celebrations going on today. cars driving around. there was a bit of sporadic shooting in the air. i think when you hearing there and seeing in that video there is overnight we were here as everyone came out on the streets and started blasting away and celebrating and saying that libya was free and that moammar gadhafi's regime was no more. a lot of excitement, but one thing i want to point out here. there is still a battle going on. when we were still outside bab al aziziya, mortars were still coming toward that compound. that means still gadhafi forces in this city that the rebels have not been able to control the entire city and one thing we want to mention is that the organization is such that in some areas of the city you're having celebratory gunfire and people going around and doing doughnuts and the other part of the city there is a firefight. and you -- >>

just how much stability this new government will bring lardy sarah ferguson has the latest for us sara joining us there in italy so what's the rebel takeover of tripoli done to the price of oil tell us more on that. but what we seeing really is a need jerk reaction in the oil markets to the events in tripoli we see in the oil prices as you say talking almost three dollars in festus thinking that there are oil production kids shortly now it's least foreign minister has confirmed that the italian oil company any has sent workers back into libya they've led the way really in sending their work is back there immediately we saw the stock prices rise again as we're saying on the hope that they'll be able to reestablish output from libya now what we've seen is the other big oil companies such is the b.p. have actually sat on the fence at the moment they're waiting for the exactly how this plays out and what's going to happen over the coming days and weeks analysts saying that any and total companies such as any intakes who could be the major winners in post-war libya they were the companies a